Editing Alfonso VIII of Castile (section)

==Children==
With [[Eleanor of England]],<ref>''Crónica Latina''</ref> Alfonso had 11 children:{{sfn|Vann|2003|p=63}}
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|[[Berengaria of Castile|Berengaria]]||[[Burgos]],<br/> 1 January/<br/>June 1180||[[Las Huelgas]] near Burgos,<br/> 8 November 1246||Married firstly in [[Seligenstadt]] on 23 April 1188 with Duke [[Conrad II of Swabia]], but the union (only by contract and never solemnized) was later annulled. Married in [[Valladolid]] between 1/16 December 1197 with King [[Alfonso IX of León]] as his second wife.<ref>''New International Encyclopedia'', Vol. 13, (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1915), 782.</ref> After their marriage was dissolved on grounds of consanguinity in 1204, she returned to her homeland and became regent of her minor brother King Henry I. Queen of Castile in her own right after the death of Henry I in 1217, quickly abdicated in favor of her son [[Ferdinand III of Castile]] who would re-unite the kingdoms of Castile and León.
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|Sancho||Burgos,<br/> 5 April 1181||26 July 1181||Heir of the throne since his birth, died aged three months.
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|Sancha||20/28 March 1182||3 February 1184/<br/>16 October 1185||Died in infancy.
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|Henry||1184||1184?||Heir of the throne since his birth, died either shortly after being born or in infancy. His existence is disputed among sources.
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|[[Urraca of Castile, Queen of Portugal|Urraca]]||1186/<br/>28 May 1187||[[Coimbra]],<br/> 3 November 1220||Queen of [[Afonso II of Portugal]]
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|[[Blanche of Castile|Blanche]]||[[Palencia]],<br/> 4 March 1188||[[Paris]],<br/> 27 November 1252||Married to [[Louis VIII of France]]
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|[[Ferdinand of Castile (died 1211)|Ferdinand]]||[[Cuenca, Spain|Cuenca]],<br/> 29 September 1189||[[Madrid]],<br/> 14 October 1211||Heir of the throne since his birth. On whose behalf [[Diego of Acebo]] and the future [[Saint Dominic]] travelled to [[Denmark]] in 1203 to secure a bride.<ref>Vicaire, pp. 89&ndash;98.</ref> Ferdinand was returning through the San Vicente mountains from a campaign against the Muslims when he contracted a fever and died.{{sfn|Osma|1997|loc=vol. 20|pp=55–56}}
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|[[Mafalda de Castilla|Mafalda]]||[[Plasencia]],<br/> 1191||[[Salamanca]],<br/> 1204||Betrothed in 1204 to Infante Ferdinand of Leon, eldest son of Alfonso IX and stepson of her oldest sister.
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|[[Eleanor of Castile (died 1244)|Eleanor]]||1200{{sfn|Shadis|2010|p=4}}||Las Huelgas,<br/> 1244||Married in [[Ágreda]] on 6 February 1221 with [[James I of Aragon]]. 
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|Constance||{{circa|1202}}{{sfn|Shadis|2010|p=4}}||Las Huelgas,<br/> 1243||A nun at the Cistercian monastery of Santa María la Real at [[Las Huelgas]] in 1217, she became known as the Lady of Las Huelgas, a title shared with later royal family members who joined the community.{{sfn|Shadis|2010|p=4}} 
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|[[Henry I of Castile|Henry]] ||Valladolid,<br/> 14 April 1204||Palencia,<br/> 6 June 1217||Only surviving son, he succeeded his father in 1214 aged ten under the regency firstly of his mother and later his oldest sister. He was killed when he was struck by a tile falling from a roof.
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Through his daughters, Berengaria and Blanche, he was the grandfather of two monarchs who became [[saints|saints of the Roman Church]].